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Elephant-lluntin! 



in the darkness to the l^ody ol the last-killed elei)hant, in 

 order to n|)en its stomach and drink the indescribably 

 stinking liquid inside. Then we lav down agriin in our 

 camp, suddenly to be awakened at about nine o'clock by 

 my experienced old " Fundi " springing up and giving out 

 the cry, in low tones, " Tembo, Bwana ! Tembo ! " 



And, sure enough, there were the twenty-one remaining 





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THE El.El'HAMS, OVER TWENTY IX NUMBER, HAD MADE THEIR WAY 

 ACROSS THE BED OF A STREAM, NOW DRIED UP 



elephants, looking like monstrous ghosts in the moonlight, 

 moving past us with their noiseless trot in the direction 

 of the hills they had left ! 



The elephants were clearly striving to make their way 

 as quickly as possible to their mountain thickets. My 

 men had sprung up at once, and exerted themselves as 

 quick as lightning to extinguish our small fire by tearing 

 out the burning pieces of wood, knowing by experience 



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